Hamlet Quotes

Hamlet to himself

A little more than kin and less than kind.

Hamlet to Claudius

I am too much in the sun

Hamlet to himself

O, that this too, too sullied flesh should melt

Hamlet to himself

... frailty, thy name is woman

Hamlet to Horatio

In my mind's eye...

Hamlet to himself

...Foul deeds will rise,/ Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes

Polonius to Laertes

And these few precepts in they memory/ Look thou character. give thy thoughts no tongue,/ Nor any unproportioned thought his act./ Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar/ (be a borrower nor lender be speech)....Farewell. My blessing season this in thee.

Marcellus to Horatio

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Ghost to Hamlet

Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.

Ghost to Hamlet

The serpent that did sting thy father's life/ Now wears his crown

Ghost to Hamlet

Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive/ Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven...

Hamlet to Horatio (Marcellus and Ghost is present as well)

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,/ Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Hamlet to Horatio (Marcellus and Ghost is present as well)

As i perchance hearafter shall think meet/ To put an antic disposition on.

Hamlet to Horatio and Marcellus (Ghost is present as well)

The time is out of joint. O cursed spite/ That ever i was born to set it right!

Polonius to Claudius and Gertrude

... brevity is the soul of wit

Gertrude to Polonius (Claudius is present as well)

More matter with less art.

Polonius to himself

(hamlet is present as well)

Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

What a piece of work is a man... quintessence of dust?

Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly,/ i know a hawk from a handsaw

Hamlet to Polonius

Use everyman after his deser and who shall 'scape whipping?/ Use them after your own honor and dignity. The less they/ deserve, the more merit is in your bounty.

Hamlet to himself

O, what a rogue and peasant slave am i!

Hamlet to himself

what's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba,/ That he should weep for her?

Hamlet to himself

The play's the thing/ Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King.

Hamlet to himself (Ophelia, Polonius and Claudius are present however)

To be or not to be.../...lose the name of action.

Hamlet to Ophelia (Polonius and Claudius are present as well)

Get thee to a nunnery

Claudius to Polonius (Ophelia is present but does not hear)

It shall be so./ Madness in great ones must no unwatched go.

Gertrude to Hamlet on the play

The lady doth protests too much, me thinks.

Hamlet to Guildenstern (Rosencrantz present as well)

Call me what instrument you will, though you can/ fret me, you cannot play upon me.

Polonius to himself

Now i could drink hot blood

Claudius to himself

O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven;/ It hath the primal eldest curse upon't.

Claudius to himself

But 'tis not so above:/ There is no shuffling;

Claudius to himself

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below;/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Polonius to Gertrude

I'll silence me even here

Hamlet to Gertrude

Look here upon this picture and on this,/ The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.

Gertrude to Hamlet

This is the very coinage of your brain

Hamlet to Gertrude

I must be cruel only to be kind./ This bad begins, and worse remains behind.

Hamlet to Gertrude

This counselor/ Is now most still, mosecret, and most grave,/ Who was in life a foolish, prating knave

Gertrude to Claudius

And in this brainish apprehension kills/ The unseen good old man

Hamlet to Claudius (Rosencrantz present as well)

Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress/ through the guts of a beggar

Hamlet to himself

How all occasions do inform against me/ and spur my dull revenge.

Hamlet to himself

O, from this time forth/ My thought be bloody or be nothing worth,

Claudius to Gertrude

When sorrows come, they come not single spies,/ but in battalions

Ophelia to Laertes (Claudius and Gertrude present as well)

There's rosemary, that's for remembrance,/ Pray you, love, remember.

Laertes to Claudius

To cut his throat i' th' church

Laertes to dead Ophelia

(Claudius and Gertrude are present)

Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia,/ and therefore i forbid my tears.

Hamlet to Horatio (Gravedigger present as well)

Alas, poor Yorick! i knew him, Horatio--a fellow/ of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy.

Hamlet to Horatio (Grave digger present as well)

Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,/ Might stop a hole to keep the wind away./ O, that the earth which kept the world in awe/ Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw.

Gertrude to Dead Ophelia (funeral party present as well)

Sweets to the sweet,

Hamlet to Gertrude (and the rest of the funeral party)

Let Hercules himself do what he may,/ The cat will mew, and the dog will have his day.

Hamlet to Horatio

There's a divinty that shaper our ends,/ Rough-hew them how we will.

Hamlet to Horatio

the readiness is all.

Hamlet to Laertes (Claudius present)

That i have shot my arrow o'er my house/ And hurt my brother

Hamlet to Horatio

Report me and my cause airght/ To the unsatisfied.

Horatio to Dead Hamlet

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,/ And flights of angels sing thee to they rest.